For all those poker enthusiasts, who are looking for thrilling poker entertainment, I have concentrated ten following poker facts. Whether you play poker on daily bases or only on the weekends, you can surprise your friends with new pieces of interesting information, I bet they like it!

• Cards, card games and engagement in various card activities originate from China
• In 1937, poker game received an additional fifth suit, but the experiment failed on the long run due to the need in new card decks
• Relatively 80 million Americans engage in poker activities and fifty percent of them play offline poker on regular bases
• The first online poker room ever began its functioning in 1998. It was Planet Poker
• Each King in a card deck symbolizes a great piece of history:
  
  Spades stand for King David
  
  Hearts stand for Charlemagne
  
  Clubs stand for Alexander, the Great
  
  Diamondsstand for Julius Caesar
  
  
• Las Vegas Casinos are not legally obligated to pay off their gambling debts
• Fish is a commonly used idiom for poker looser
• Doyle Brunson won his first million during World Championships of 1976 and 1977
• Nearly 2.598.960 possible poker hands combinations exist with fifty-two cards
• The only two "one-eyed" Jacks in a card deck are Jack of spades and Jack of hearts

To sum up, a quote that articulates the main direction in poker:

"Most of the money you will win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents"

by Lou Krieger